The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O’Brien.Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2023.International Booker Prize Longlist 2023.International Booker Prize Shortlist 2023.Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2023.You might not see how everything threads together as you read along, but when you look back from the end of the story, the map becomes clear.”Īnn Patchett, These Precious Days Recent Posts “In life, time runs together in its sameness, but in fiction time is condensed-one action springboards into another, greater action.Ĭause and effect are so much clearer in novels than they are in life. “I truly believe that attention is the most sacred resource that we have to spend on this planet, and books are perhaps the last places where we spend this resource freely, and where it means the most.” I reviewed The Dry for Bookbrowse, where you can read the full review and a Beyond the Book article on The Big Dry.Īustralia Swelters in Heatwave and argues about Energy Future – The Guardian, Friday 10 Feb, 2017Ī Page-Turner of a Mystery Set in a Parched Australia – NY Times review
Jane Harper is at work on her next novel, which also features the protagonist Aaron Falk. With several twists, suspects and an intriguing back story of another death of a girl that occurred when the friends were teenagers, it sets a good pace, while exploring the effect of climatic conditions on a small rural community and the circumstances that cause others to seek out smaller towns as an escape. However Luke’s father is not happy with the way the police have handled his son’s apparent murder/suicide and asks Falk to stay and look into it. It is clear he wants the visit over and done with as soon as possible and is unwilling to engage with anyone. T he story follows Aaron Falk, a police officer from Melbourne, who returns to the town he and father were run out of many years back, for the funeral of his childhood friend Luke. The Dry is Jane Harper’s cracking debut crime fiction novel set in a fictional southeastern Australian town, suffering the effects of the ‘The Big Dry’, a nine-year drought. Australia is in the midst of coping with an extremely hot summer, Sydney and Brisbane experiencing the hottest January on record, February looking even hotter with the arrival of a heat wave and increased fire risks in Victoria and New South Wales (where currently 49 fires are burning across the state, 17 of which are not contained and the fire rating is at the level of “catastrophic”).Ī situation that makes the context of Jane Harper’s new novel seem wearily appropriate.
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